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<h3>Contents:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#leg">Legislation and More Legislation</a>
</li><li><a href="#links">Linux Links</a>
</li><li><a href="#conferences">Conferences and Events</a>
</li><li><a href="#general">News in General</a>
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June 2003 <i>Linux Journal</i>
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The June issue of <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/"><i>Linux
Journal</i></a> is on newsstands now.
This issue focuses on Program Development.  Click 
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<center><H3><font color="green">Legislation and More Legislation</font></H3></center>

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<FONT COLOR="green">OpenForum and Software Patents
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</H3> 
Bruce Perens drew attention to the position being taken by 
<a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/">
OpenForum Europe</a>
on the possible introduction of software patents.
Seeing that their representative had signed a letter in support of the
revisions proposed by Arlene McCarthy relating to software patents, Perens
<a href="http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/05/06/1027212.shtml?tid=19">
wrote</a>:
<blockquote>
    A false or misled 'open source representative' has signed an industry
    resolution calling for the EU to allow software patenting, which has
    been sent to members of the European Parliament...
</blockquote>
In an
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30632.html">
open letter</a>,
Graham Taylor, director of OpenForum Europe, rejected Perens'
interpretation.  Taylor made the point that OpenForum Europe only had a
brief to represent its members, largely composed of businesses and
corporations, and did not seek or claim to represent the wider Free
Software or Open Source communities.  It is questionable whether this
distinction was equally clear to other readers of the initial letter.  

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<FONT COLOR="green">SCOundrels?
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<P>
As readers are surely aware, SCO (the software company formerly known as
Caldera) has launched a hostile legal attack against IBM in particular, and
indeed against the GNU/Linux community as a whole.
Although the details will remain somewhat obscured until the case is
thrashed out in court, it appears that SCO is alleging that IBM took code
it had licensed from SCO (for AIX) and showed it to Linux kernel
developers.  It was access to this code that allowed GNU/Linux to become
the stable and powerful operating system it is today... or 
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,79153,00.html">
so the story goes</a>.  The
<a href="http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.html">
entire suit</a>
can be read at SCO's website.
<P>
This has lead to some bizarre situations, such as 
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,81191,00.html">
SCO threatening to sue</a>
it's partners in the UnitedLinux project, and the 
<a href="http://www.sco.com/scosource/letter_to_linux_customers.html">
suspension of its own GNU/Linux related activities</a>.  One can only guess
at how this plays with SCO's GNU/Linux customers who have now been marooned
in a dubious legal situation.  Perhaps they could sue SCO, since SCO was
illegally selling intellectual property SCO owned (or something!).
<P>
To try and make some sense of this situation, it is useful to read Eric
Raymond's 
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html">
OSI position paper</a>
on the topic.  This document is a fine read, and gives an interesting
overview of Unix history as related to the legal case.  It would appear
that there are one or two inconsistencies, inaccuracies and perhaps
outright lies and deceptions in SCO's claims.  Some of this madness is
further highlighted in Linux Weekly News's account of SCO's refusal to come
clean with details of what code infringes on their intellectual property
(at least without
<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6877">signing a
nondisclosure agreement</a>).
SCO CEO Darl McBride is quoted as saying:
<blockquote>
"The Linux community would have me publish it now, (so they can have it) laundered by the time we can get to a court hearing. That's not the way we're going to go."
</blockquote>
But as LWN points out
<blockquote>
"The Linux community, of course, would be incapable of "laundering" the
code, since it is, according to SCO, incapable of implementing (or
reimplementing) anything so advanced without stealing it.<br>
...<br>
Such a series of events would not change SCO's case in any way, however. If
IBM truly misappropriated SCO's code, that act remains. And it is an act
that cannot be hidden; the evidence is distributed, beyond recall, all over
the Internet. And all over the physical world as well.
</blockquote>
One has to wonder who was responsible for stealing the "intellectual" part
of SCO's intellectual property.
<P>
How this will all pan out is anybody's guess.  It is certain that the story
has some way to run yet.  Further spice was added to the mix by Microsoft's
<a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1007528.html">
decision to license SCO software</a>
leading to suspicions that they were attempting to bankroll SCO's legal
adventures and help to 
<a href="http://news.com.com/2010-1071-1007758.html">
undermine confidence</a>
in Free and Open Source software.  
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30821.html">
Reports</a>
that SCO has destroyed archives of the Caldera-Microsoft antitrust lawsuit
documentation have fuelled such speculation.  Novell 
<a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-1010569.html">
weighing in</a>
and claiming ownership of the contested code has further confused matters.
An interesting development is the 
<a href="http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003053001926NWLLDV">
granting by German courts of an injunction</a>
preventing SCO from saying (in Germany) that Linux contains
illegally obtained SCO intellectual property.
<p>
Probably the best course of action is that 
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project-0305/msg00058.html">
proposed by Ray Dessen</a> on the Debian Project lists and 
<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/20/">
reported by Debian Weekly News</a>
<blockquote>
"the issue so far consists of allegations and rumors from a company that is
far along the way to obsolescence. They have yet to produce anything that
could be remotely considered evidence, while there have been concrete
indications of SCO itself violating the GPL by the inclusion of GPLed
filesystem code from the Linux kernel into its proprietary (Unixware?)
kernel."
</blockquote>
This "wait and see" approach is also the one 
<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/23/1427233">
taken by Linux Torvalds</a>.
If you want to be more active, you could start shouting
<a
href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6913&mode=thread&order=0">
"Hey SCO, Sue Me"</a>
or answer Eric Raymond's
<a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1240238">
request for information</a>

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<center><H3><font color="green">Linux Links</font></H3></center>

<P>
Some interesting articles from the O'Reilly stable of websites:
<ul>
    <li>
    Perl:
    <a href="http://perl.oreilly.com/wheretostart.html">
    Where Do I Start?</a>
    </li>
    <li>
    What is
    <a href="http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/05/12/embedlinux.html">
    embedded GNU/Linux</a>, and does it exist at all?
    </li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/05/15/sdl_anim.html">
    A new series on SDL</a>
    by Bob Pendleton.
    </li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/05/29/essentialsysadmin.html">
    Top five open source packages for system administrators</a>.
    </li>
</ul>
<P>
<a href="http://www.affero.net/nl/may03.html">
Random Hacks of Kindness</a>.
<P>
IBM Developerworks overview
<a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-adfly.html?ca=dgr-lnxw02LinuxOnTheFly">
on the Linux /proc filesystem</a>.
<P>
>From The Register:
<ul>
    <li>
    <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30733.html">
    Internet is dying - Prof. Lessig</a>
    </li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30713.html">
    Can US software developers form an 'open source' union?</a>
    </li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30934.html">
    MobiliX v. Asterix  in plea to top German court</a>.
    </li>
</ul>
<P>
Open Source Digest
<a href="http://www.opensourcedigest.com/issue1/skunkweb_part1.html">
introduction to SkunkWeb</a>
(continues in
<a href="http://www.opensourcedigest.org/issue2/skunkweb_part2.html">
part 2</a>
<P>
>From <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.cmo/"><em>Linux Journal</em></a>:
<ul>
    <li>
    Polishing a  
    <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6891">
    GNU/Linux laptop setup</a>: sound, wireless comms and power management.
    </li>
    <li>
    An overview of the
    <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6890">
    LNX-BBC 2.1</a> (Linux Bootable Business Card).
    </li>
    <li>
    Linux Journal takes a 
    <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6847">
    look at spamprobe</a>.
    </li>
</ul>
<P>
Some interesting links found via
<a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/">Linux Today</a>:
<ul>
    <li>
    linmagau.org have
    <a href="http://www.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=114&page=1">
    compared XMMS and Noatun</a> from point of view of MP3 playback quality.
    </li>
    <li>
    Unix Review
    <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7822/sam0304web/">
    reviews User-Mode Linux</a>.
    </li>
    <li>
    Sensor Magazine
    examines 
    <a href="http://www.sensorsmag.com/articles/0503/30/">
    the future of GNU/Linux on the factory-floor</a>.
    </li>
    <li>
    In the UK, Nottingham City Council has saved money
    <a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=121535&liFlavourID=1&sp=1">
    by basing its email infrastructure on GNU/Linux</a>
    </li>
    <li>
    Linux Productivity Magazine
    <a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200305/200305.htm">
    guide to IPTables</a>.
    </li>
    <li>
    LinuxMedNews
    <a href="http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1053880172/index_html">
    reports on a study</a>
    describing the implementation of open source
    software in a large Irish public sector organization, Beaumont
    Hospital
    </li>
    <li>
    GNU/Linux based laptops marketed by HP in Thailand
    <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110884,00.asp">
    have proven to be very popular</a>.
    </li>
</ul>
<P>
And some links from 
<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/">NewsForge</a>:
<ul>
    <li>
    <a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/1931223">
    Getting rid of the OpenOffice splash screen</a>
    </li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1920257">
    Knoppix installation tips</a>, dealing both with from-CD operation and
    installation onto a hard drive.
    </li>
    <li>
    Is SuSE 8.2 ,
    <a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1850233">
    better than Mandrake</a>
    for new users?
    </li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/01/1934257">
    GNU/Linux as a competitive 'real-time' OS</a>
    </li>
    <li>
    Release of the
    <a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/025237">
    Jargon File -- 4.4.0</a>, now with cartoons.
    </li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1316203">
    Jakob Nielsen on how Apple blew it, how GNU/Linux will, too</a>.
    </li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1752229">
    Embedded GNU/Linux powers "first hand-held software radio"</a>
    </li>
    <li>
    Successfully 
    <a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/16/169242">
    making the transition to GNU/Linux</a>
    </li>
    <li>
    Newsforge has
    <a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1316220">
    interviewed</a> Samba co-founder Andrew Tridgell.
    </li>
    <li>
    A look forward to the upcoming
    <a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/1226215">
    Linux kernel 2.6</a>.
    </li>
</ul>



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<center><H3><font color="green">Upcoming conferences and events</font></H3></center>

<P> Listings courtesy <EM>Linux Journal</EM>.  See <EM>LJ</EM>'s
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/events.php">Events</A> page for the
latest goings-on.

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        <b>CeBIT America</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>June 18-20, 2003<BR>New York, NY<BR>
        <a href="http://www.cebit-america.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.cebit-america.com/</A><BR>

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        <b>ClusterWorld Conference and Expo</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>June 24-26, 2003<BR>San Jose, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.clusterworldexpo.com/" 
	target="_blank">
        http://www.clusterworldexpo.com</A><BR>

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        <b>O'Reilly Open Source Convention</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>July 7-11, 2003<BR>Portland, OR<BR>
        <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/" target="_blank">
        http://conferences.oreilly.com/</A><BR>

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        <b>12th USENIX Security Symposium</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>August 4-8, 2003<BR>Washington, DC<BR>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/" target="_blank">
        http://www.usenix.org/events/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>HP World</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>August 11-15, 2003<BR>Atlanta, GA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.hpworld.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.hpworld.com</A><BR>


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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>LinuxWorld UK</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>September 3-4, 2003<BR>Birmingham, United Kingdom<BR>
        <a href="http://www.linuxworld2003.co.uk" target="_blank">
        http://www.linuxworld2003.co.uk</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Linux Lunacy</b>
        <td valign=top>September 13-20, 2003<BR>Alaska's Inside Passage<BR>
        <a href="http://www.geekcruises.com/home/ll3_home.html" target="_blank">
        http://www.geekcruises.com/home/ll3_home.html</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Software Development Conference & Expo</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>September 15-19, 2003<BR>Boston, MA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.sdexpo.com" target="_blank">
        http://www.sdexpo.com</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>PC Expo</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>September 16-18, 2003<BR>New York, NY<BR>
        <a href="http://www.techxny.com/pcexpo_techxny.cfm" target="_blank">
        http://www.techxny.com/pcexpo_techxny.cfm</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>COMDEX Canada</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>September 16-18, 2003<BR>Toronto, Ontario<BR>
        <a href="http://www.comdex.com/canada/" target="_blank">
        http://www.comdex.com/canada/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>IDUG 2003 - Europe</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>October 7-10, 2003<BR>Nice, France<BR>
        <a href="http://www.idug.org" target="_blank">
        http://www.idug.org</A><BR>


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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>LISA (17th USENIX Systems Administration Conference)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>October 26-30, 2003<BR>San Diego, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/" target="_blank">
        http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>HiverCon 2003</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>November 6-7, 2003<BR>Dublin, Ireland<BR>
        <a href="http://www.hivercon.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.hivercon.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>COMDEX Fall</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>November 17-21, 2003<BR>Las Vegas, NV<BR>
        <a href="http://www.comdex.com/fall2003/" target="_blank">
        http://www.comdex.com/fall2003/</A><BR>

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<center><H3><font color="green">News in General</font></H3></center>



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<H3><IMG ALT=" "   SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
<FONT COLOR="green">IBM Announces New Grid Offerings, Partners to form Grid
EcosysteM
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> has announced new offerings to further
expand
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/grid">
Grid</a>
computing into commercial enterprises, including the introduction of new
solutions for four industries - petroleum, electronics, higher education
and agricultural chemicals.  In addition IBM announced that more than 35
companies, including networking giant Cisco Systems, will join IBM to form
the foundation of a Grid ecosystem that is designed to foster Grid
computing for businesses.
<P>
IBM is working with Royal Dutch Shell to speed up the processing of seismic
data.  The solution, based on IBM eServer xSeries running Globus and GNU/Linux,
cuts the processing time of seismic data while improving the quality of the
data.  IBM also announced RBC Insurance and Kansai Electric Power as new
Grid customers.



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<H3><IMG ALT=" "   SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
<FONT COLOR="green">Geek fair
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
<a href="http://freegeek.org/">
Free Geek</a>
is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon, that
recycles used technology to provide computers, education and access to the
internet to those in need in exchange for community service.
<P>
They are organizing a GEEK FAIR (version 3.0) which will take  place
Sunday, June 29th Noon to 6pm at 1731 SE 10th Avenue Portland, Oregon.
The free community block party will include
Hard Drive Shuffleboard, Live Music, Square Dancing,
Food, Sidewalk Sale, Funny Hats.
<P>
Obviously most readers (worldwide) will have geographical problems
attending this particular event, but maybe it will give people ideas to
organise something similar more locally.





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<FONT COLOR="green">GELATO Federation
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
Overwhelming interest in running GNU/Linux on Itanium processors has helped
to double membership in the
<a href="http://www.gelato.org">
Gelato Federation</a>
to 20 institutions. Gelato is
a worldwide collaborative research community of universities, national
laboratories and industry sponsors that is dedicated to providing scalable,
open-source tools, utilities, libraries and applications to accelerate the
adoption of GNU/Linux on Itanium systems. 
<P>
Gelato's technical foci are determined by the members and sponsors, and
collaborative work is conducted through the
<a href="http://www.gelato.org">
Gelato portal</a>.
Portal activity has tripled in the past two quarters, reflecting the
momentum in
membership growth. Recent member software made available through the Gelato
portal includes two contributions from CERN: GEANT4, a toolkit for the
simulation of the passage of particles through matter; and CLHEP, a class
library for high-energy physics; and one from Gelato Member NCAR: the
Spectral Toolkit, a library of multithreaded spectral transforms. 






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<FONT COLOR="green">College Linux
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</H3> 
<P>
<a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1514225">
Tux goes to college</a>.  
Russell Pavlicek of NewsForge reports on 
<a href="http://www.college.ch/linux/index.php">College Linux</a>, which
has been developed in Robert Kennedy College, Switzerland.  The distro has
quite an important place in the operation of the college as some students
study entirely via the internet.

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</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
Debian Weekly News reported that
The miniwoody CD, which
offers a stripped down variant of Debian woody, has been
<a href="http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=954">
renamed</a> to 
<a href="http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bonzai/">
Bonzai Linux</a>.

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<FONT COLOR="green">SuSE
</FONT>
</H3> 

<a href="http://www.suse.de/en/">
SuSE Linux</a>
has announced 
market
availability for its Carrier-Grade Linux (CGL) edition of SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server, Powered by UnitedLinux.
Developed in conjunction with HP, IBM and Intel Corporation, and
targeted initially for Intel-based hardware platforms, SuSE Linux CGL
Edition provides wide scalability, from real-time systems to back-end
processing - enabling customers to use a single platform. For current
applications - such as operating and business support systems, gateway,
signalling and management servers, and next generation voice, data and
wireless solutions - CGL will enable customers to more cost-efficiently
deploy dependable, advanced applications while they endeavour to adhere to
rigorous standards and demands for performance, reliability and
availability. 

<P> The SuSE Linux CGL Edition is available at no charge as a Service Pack
to SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 customers. CGL incorporates technologies
defined by the OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux Working Group, an initiative
whose members include SuSE, HP, IBM, Intel and leading Telecom and Network
Equipment providers.


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<FONT COLOR="green">UnitedLinux
</FONT>
</H3> 

<P>
<a href="http://www.unitedlinux.com/">
UnitedLinux</a>
has announced that its four founding partner companies will
offer special support programs and discounts to 
<a href="http://www.unitedlinux.com/oracleisv/">
ISV participants</a>
in the Oracle's Unbreakable Linux Partner Initiative.  Oracle's Unbreakable
Linux Partner Initiative provides financial and technical incentives to
ISVs delivering solutions on Oracle's Unbreakable Linux software
infrastructure.  The Oracle Unbreakable Linux Partner Initiative
complements Oracle's partnerships with strategically selected Linux
platform providers and with hardware companies.



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<FONT COLOR="green">Mammoth PostgreSQL 7.3.2 released
</FONT>
</H3> 

<P>
<a href="http://www.commandprompt.com/entry.lxp?lxpe=147">
Mammoth PostgreSQL 7.3.2</a>
from 
<a href="http://www.commandprompt.com/">
Command Prompt, Inc.</a> has been released.
Mammoth PostgreSQL is a robust, reliable,
SQL-compatible Object Relational Database Management System (ORDBMS). It is
designed to give small to medium size businesses the power, performance, and
open-standard support they desire.
<P>
100% compatible with the PostgreSQL 7.3.2 release, Mammoth PostgreSQL
provides a commercially-supported and optimized PostgreSQL distribution for
Win32, MacOSX and Red Hat Linux x86 platforms.
<P>
Also released is
<a href="http://www.commandprompt.com/entry.lxp?lxpe=126">
Mammoth pgManage 1.0</a>,
a platform independent PostgreSQL administrator available for GNU/Linux and
Windows.




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<FONT COLOR="green">Majesty, from Linux Game Publishing 
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
<a href="http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/index.php?">
Linux Game Publishing</a>'s long awaited new game
<a href="http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/info.php?id=8&">
Majesty</a>, is now in stock. A
<a href="http://demos.linuxgamepublishing.com">Demo</a>
is available, and the game is available for shipment immediately.

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<FONT COLOR="green">Appligent AppendPDF Pro 3.0
</FONT>
</H3> 

<P>
<a href="http://www.appligent.com">
Appligent, Inc.</a>,
a
provider of Portable Document Format (PDF)-related software
solutions, has announced the release of AppendPDF Pro 3.0, which
enables businesses and organizations to dynamically assemble sections
from PDF documents to build a completely new version with a choice of
personalized features, such as a cover page and table of contents. This
allows any PDF file to be automatically built and customized to the
needs of each individual requesting specific information.
AppendPDF Pro 3.0 is available for Windows NT/2000/XP,
Solaris, Red Hat Linux, AIX and HP-UX, as well as Mac OS X.
<P>
AppendPDF Pro is available for purchase at
<a href="http://www.appligent.com">
www.appligent.com</a>, as well as
through the U.S. 
<a href="http://www.gsaadvantage.gov">
General Services Administration (GSA) Advantage</a> Web site.

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<FONT COLOR="green">Opera 7 now available on Linux
</FONT>
</H3> 

<P>
<a href="http://www.opera.com/">
Opera Software</a>
has released Opera 7 for Linux.
The new version
includes new feature changes from Opera 6 for Linux as well as a
built-in e-mail client, not previously available in Opera for Linux.
Download Opera 7.11 for Linux from
<a href="http://www.opera.com/download">
www.opera.com/download</a>



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<FONT COLOR="green">Other software
</FONT>
</H3> 


The LyX team have announced the 
<a href="http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_3_2.txt">
release of LyX 1.3.2</a>




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